Adam Roberts / Richard Guelff (eds.)

Documents on the Laws of War

Ed. by Adam Roberts and Richard Guelff

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of the popular and authoritative text on the laws of war has been revised and completely updated to take account of the many diplomatic, legal and military developments of the last ten years. Conflicts in the Gulf, Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s have ensured that the laws of war remain a topic of considerable international relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3. Aufl. 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 786
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1330g
• ISBN-13: 9780198763901
• ISBN-10: 0198763905
• Artikelnr.: 14982900

Autorenporträt

Adam Roberts is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. Richard Guelff is a member of the District of Columbia Bar with an international law practice in London and counsel to a law firm in Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction by the Editors
* 1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
* 1868 St Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of
Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight
* 1899 Hague Declaration 2 Concerning Asphyxiating Gases
* 1899 Hague Declaration 3 Concerning Expanding Bullets
* 1907 Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on
Land
* Annex to the Convention: Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs
of War on Land
* 1907 Hague Convention V Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral
Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land
* 1907 Hague Convention VII Relating to the Conversion of Merchant
Ships into Warships
* 1907 Hague Convention VIII Relative to the Laying of Automatic
Submarine Contact Mines
* 1907 Hague Convention IX Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in
Time of War
* 1907 Hague Convention XI Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard
to Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War
* 1907 Hague Convention XIII Concerning the Rights and Duties of
Neutral Powers in Naval War
* 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
* 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of
Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological
Methods of Warfare
* 1936 London Proces-Verbal Relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare
Set Forth in Part IV of the Treaty of London of 22 April 1930
* 1946 Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:
Extracts on Crimes Against International Law
* 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide
* 1949 Geneva Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the
Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
* 1949 Geneva Convention II for the Amelioration of the Condition of
Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
* 1949 Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of
War
* 1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War
* 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the
Event of Armed Conflict
* Regulations for the Execution of the Convention for the Protection of
Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
* 1954 First Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in
the Event of Armed Conflict
* 1976 UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other
Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
* 1977 Geneva Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12
August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of
International Armed Conflicts
* 1977 Geneva Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12
August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of
Non-International Armed Conflicts
* 1978 Red Cross Fundamental Rules of International Humanitarian Law
Applicable in Armed Conflicts
* 1980 UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively
Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
* 1980 Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments
* 1980 Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines,
Booby-Traps and Other Devices
* 1980 Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
Incendiary Weapons
* 1995 Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons
* 1996 Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use
of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
* 1991 Operation Desert Storm, US Rules of Engagement (Pocket Card)
* 1993 Statute of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia: Extracts
* 1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed
Conflicts at Sea
* 1994 ICRC/UNGA Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on
the Protection of the Environment in Time of Armed Conflict
* 1994 Statute of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Extracts
* 1994 UN Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel
* 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: Extract
* 1997 Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their
Destruction
* 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Extracts
* 1999 Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in
the Event of Armed Conflict
* 1999 UN Secretary-General's Bulletin on Observance by UN Forces of
International Humanitarian Law
* Appendix I : Emblems and Signs
* Appendix II : Electronic Media
* Select Bibliography on the Laws of War
* Index